Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic
Sculptor active in the late 1960's and early 1970's. His ground-breaking
sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and
the audience, and reached their height with The Senster, a large (15
feet long), hydraulic robot commissioned by the electronics giant,
Philips, for their permanent showplace, the Evoluon, in Eindhoven
in 1970. The sculpture used sound and movement sensors to react to
the behaviour of the visitors. It was one of the first computer controlled
interactive robotic works of art.

When I was a kid, I read a short description of the
Senster and it really fired my imagination. I was already interested
in robots and how people react to them, but it gave me the push to
go on to study robotics at university and I finished a PhD in the
area of mechatronics in medicine (if you are interested, have a look
at my homepage).
This page is my attempt to thank him (if only posthumously), and to
provide a central, comprehensive, resource about Ed and his ground-breaking
work. I have been piecing together bits of information from various
sources and am very grateful to all the contributors who have helped
me.

If you have any relevant information that is not
here (pictures, articles, links, etc.) please email me.